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Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time 2022

Every decade the Sight and Sound team asks critics to name the greatest films of all time. Here are the results of the 2022 poll – the largest ever, with 1,639 critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot - and now updated with the complete list.

Check out Sight and Sound for the complete breakdown, including where films received the same number of votes.

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There are 23 films in this list released in the 1990s.

  • Paris Is Burning

    206

  • Close-Up

    17

  • GoodFellas

    64

  • Daughters of the Dust

    60

  • A Brighter Summer Day

    78

  • Dream of Light

    245

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    220

  • Orlando

    165

  • The Piano

    51

  • Blue

    230

  • Satantango

    79

  • Pulp Fiction

    130

  • Chungking Express

    89

  • Heat

    174

  • The Watermelon Woman

    147

  • Crash

    237

  • Taste of Cherry

    262

  • Happy Together

    228

  • Flowers of Shanghai

    233

  • The Matrix

    123

  • All About My Mother

    159

  • Beau Travail

    7

  • Magnolia

    186